Let's defend democratic freedoms
The Pablo Hasél's arrest set off the alarm over the attack on free expression. With the consent of the government, the '78 regime is increasingly unfair and antidemocratic. You have to defeat them with the action unit in the mobilization.
He 16 of February the Mossos d’Esquadra broke into the university rectory of Lleida and they stopped rapper Pablo Hasél, to serve a sentence in the Ponent prison for "terrorism" e "Insults to the Crown" Some of the manifestations of repudiation of the detention, as in Vic, Girona and Valencia, they were repressed, in Barcelona a young woman woman lost an eye by a foam bullet. In the meantime, emeritus Juan Carlos I is still on the run in the United Arab Emirates, after the accusations of corruption made against him. Few days ago, Maria Cristina Cifuentes - president of the Community of Madrid and deputy for the PP between 2015 Y 2018- it was unusually acquitted of the charge for "Documentary falsehood" from his master. During the 14F electoral campaign in Catalonia, Vox had like two of its axes the attacks on Islamism and immigrants. In Linares two plainclothes policemen savagely beat a fourteen-year-old girl and her dad, which motivated a popular protest that was repressed and in which they used lead bullets. In Pamplona a judge ruled that the filming of police operations cannot be uploaded to social networks repressive. To complete the picture, neo-Nazis conducted a act antisemitic in Madrid in honor of the Blue Division, singing songs Francoists and anti-communists.
These reactionary demonstrations are in the minority, receive an active repudiation and a rejection majority of the population. Nevertheless, in the framework of a growing political polarization and mass media coverage, I know repeat and magnify, which implies a threat that must be responded to firmly. The lukewarm complaints without direct action with the that bourgeois parties wash their faces. Wherever the head must be isolated and defeated with the widest unit of action in the mobilization.
Last Tuesday will be sadly remembered in the pages of the history books of Spain, like the day the justice and the security forces arrested a singer for expressing yourself. Much can be written and said, but the truth is that consider that the "crime" Pablo Hasél's lyrics are made up of his songs and what he posts on Twitter. That, that for the rest of humanity is part of freedom of expression, for Spanish justice it is "Exaltation terrorism " e "Insults to the Crown". Remember that, at 2014, when the first sentence was handed down against Hasél, the magistrates ruled out that the lyrics of their songs were protected by the right to freedom of expression, since in them “beats in a patent way hate speech and is not admissible in the field of freedom of expression incite violence, or make a hate speech”. The magistrates consider the art of singing extremely dangerous, but they don't think the same of neo-Nazi acts in the state capital extolling hatred of Jews and crimes against humanity.
Justice that has been chasing the rapper for years is the same as a few days ago Cifuentes was dismissed in the case of his falsified Master's degree and that "Investigates" to the emeritus for corruption and embezzlement, but he lets him leave Spain to enjoy of his luxurious life in Abu Dhabi. Tensions are building in Spain by social inequalities, growing poverty and cuts to rights democratic. Without going further, last weekend the town of Linares It was news by the populace starring after two policemen dressed in civilian clothes brutally beat a father and his daughter from 14 years. Linares, is the Spanish city with the highest unemployment rate, above the 30% and that reaches the 50% youth unemployment, for which the events experienced last Friday, were the flame that lit a social powder keg that is being lived throughout the State.
The only answer developed by Pedro Sánchez's executive is to apply small patches reformists to favor corporate profits, justify repression and let the different expressions of the right act at their ease. Since assumed by the government of the PSOE-Unidas Podemos has been presented as the "government most progressive ever”, but under his management the laws that allowed Hasél's imprisonment.
The sadly famous Gag Law was enacted in the 2015 and penalizes those cases that are attempted paralyze evictions, buildings or monuments are scaled without authorization, are recorded police interventions on public roads or demonstrations are held without communicating. It is a Law that in practice has been used against the social activism and obstructing the right to make claims, manifesting or concentrating peacefully. In addition to the aforementioned Law, at 2015 I know reformed the article 578 of the Penal Code on "Exaltation of terrorism" with an inhibitory effect on freedom of expression.
When the PSOE and Podemos were opposition, They branded the Gag Law unconstitutional, undemocratic, violation of the rights of demonstration, gathering and expression. They even said that it was a step back in the division of powers, since it gave the Government in power the power to fine both protesters and the opposition politics. Today that they govern they seem to have forgotten their words and they support this dire regulation. We are in the presence of a law that imprisoned to Hasél, that forced the singer Valtonyc to go into exile in Belgium so as not to go imprisoned for the same reasons as Pablo and who questions the publication of the video by Linares; but who is complacent with the aggressiveness and hatred of neo-Nazis and Vox publicly expressed.
The facts mentioned had different motivations and characteristics, I even know gave in different regions of the Spanish State. Nevertheless, it is not about isolated facts, are closely related to unfair actions, undemocratic and repressive of the '78 regime, molding Franco. Is increasingly evident that for the Spanish State they are taking the model of repression and jail applied against Catalan self-determination. You need to be strengthen demonstrations with the broadest unity of action, as the Catalonia in which we have participated from SOL. We have to win the streets to stand up to this government and put an end to the rotten regime from '78, for freedom to Pablo Hasél, freedom of expression, amnesty for political prisoners and exiles. For the general strike against the unemployment, low wages and job insecurity. Definitely, against the consequences of the capitalist crisis.
